Source : Consortium News, Dennis J. Bernstein, 18-01-2018
Le Salvador est le dernier pays visé par l’administration Trump par le programme de cessation de protections des peuples sous le Statut Temporaire de Protection (STP). Celui-ci fournit un soutien pour les migrants fuyant les crises humanitaires, rapporte Dennis J.Bernstein
Source : Dennis J. Bernstein, Consortium News, 26-01-2018
Les élections contestées de l’an dernier au Honduras ont constitué un terreau toujours fertile à la mobilisation d’activistes populaires dans le pays, dont les manifestations se voient confrontées à une répression sévère de la part de la police et de l’armée, rapporte Dennis J Bernstein dans l’interview qui suit.
Despite an organized and active grassroots movement, Honduran politics have been repeatedly steamrolled by the self-interests of international ruling elites, as journalist and filmmaker Jesse Freeston explained to Dennis J. Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein For weeks following its stolen…Read more →
As the bus was taking our accompaniment delegation to Honduras to the airport for our return home, it stopped by the offices of Radio Progreso. Piling on to the bus came some twenty staff members of the station to bid us goodbye. Each of them greeted us with an embrace, a kiss, or a clasp of hands expressing heartfelt gratitude for our having come to be with them at this dangerous and chaotic time in their country. It was a striking gesture of affection that deeply touched us, the visiting delegates.
This week, following the recent announcement of a new National Defense Strategy that focuses on conflicts with great powers and a new arms race, the Pentagon announced an escalation of nuclear weapons development. The United States’ military is spread across the world, including several dangerous conflict areas that could develop into an all-out war, possibly in conflict with China or Russia.
Last year’s disputed elections in Honduras continue to present a struggle for grassroots activists in the country, who face harsh police and military crackdowns in response to protests, reports Dennis J. Bernstein in the following interview. By Dennis J. Bernstein…Read more →
For over two months, the Opposition Alliance has claimed that their candidate, Salvador Nasralla, was the winner of the presidential elections of November 26. Gilberto Ríos Grillo is a national leader from the LIBRE party, one of the parties that makes up the Alliance, whose secretary-general is Manuel Zelaya, the former Honduran president who was deposed in a coup in July 2009.
Here it goes again! Several countries of Oceania (also known as South Pacific Nations), or however you want to call that vast, beautiful but thoroughly devastated part of the world, have voted “for Israel”, “for the United States’ proposed resolution at the United Nations”, and therefore, “against Palestine”.
As reported on December 22, 2017 by Al Jazeera:
A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Yucatan Basin, near the Gulf of Honduras at 9:52pm Eastern Standard Time (02.52 UTC). The quake depth was estimated to be 6.2 miles (10km). Since this was a sea-based quake, there were a series of tsumami advisories posted for various places around the epicenter of the quake. However, many of these advisories have since been canceled.
This was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in this region of the world.
As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. By Nicolas J.S. Davies I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono…Read more →
